2. Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli – Current Nepal PM
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli was born 22 February 1952 on Terathum of Nepal, more commonly famous in politics as K. P. Oli. K.P. Oli is an enthusiastic Nepalese politician who has served as the 38th Prime-Minister of Nepal from the date of 11 October 2015 to 3 August 2016. He is also the chairperson of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist -Leninist).
He was also the second Prime Minister under the newly adopted Constitution.
Personal life of current Nepal PM KP Oli
Oli was born in Terathum in a rural Village of Eastern Nepal. He lived mostly in Jhapa during his political life. Oli had started his study in Himalaya Higher Secondary School, from Damak Municipality of Jhapa district from the age of 12.
But he left school in grade nine bringing himself to Politics from an early age. He has no marital life, so almost most of his life was dedicated to Politics. He is the Patient of Kidney and Blood Pressure. He visits Thailand regularly for his regular check-up.
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Political Life:-
K.P. Oli had begun his political career in 1966. He had joined the Communist Party(UML) of Nepal in February 1970. He has actively involved in subversive politics opposite the party-less Panchayat System from his place at that time.
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For his anti-governmental activities, he was arrested and get jailed for the first time in 1970 A.D. but he was soon released due to a lack of enough evidence.
After his releasing of the year later he gets back to the politics being the District committee member of the party and sooner in 1972, he was able to hold the responsibility of the Chief of the Jhapa Movement Organizing Committee.
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Later, Oli gets arrested and jailed for 14 consecutive years accused of murders from 1973 to 1987.
Those murders were attributed as”Murkatta revolution”, on opposite to their political opponents and dictator landlords. After a planned escape from jail in 1987, he came back to politics as a central committee member of UML with the responsibility of in-charge for the Lumbini Zone to 1990.
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He continued to move ahead and in 1992 went on to hold the post and responsibility of the chief of the foreign department of the CPN (UML). He is also the founder member and first president of the National Democratic Youth Federation of Nepal (DNYF).
After the downfall of the Panchayat system, in 1991 election for the representatives of the house of representatives, he was elected as being a member of parliament in the House of Representatives from Jhapa district from electorate no. 6.
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Later on, he became the chief of the department of publicity. In the always-changing political situation of Nepal, Oli has served as Minister of Home Affairs from 1994 to1995. In 1999, He was again re-elected as the member to the House of Representatives from Jhapa from the electorate no. 2.
Later on, K.P Oli was appointed for the chair of Deputy Prime Minister being part of the interim government in 2006.
He was also assigned to look the case of death of his fellow politician Madan Bhandari. Similarly, from April 2006 to 2007, K.P Oli was Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Oli had stood being a candidate in the constituent Assembly election 2008but he becomes failed to win a seat. But, Five years later, he won the Jhapa from electorate no.7 for the seat in the 2013 Constituent Assembly election being a CPN-UML representative.
He was assigned for the position as the Chief of the International Department of the CPN-UML Parliamentary Party. K.P Oli was nominated as the leader for the CPN-UML Parliamentary Party in their Second Constituent Assembly on the date of 4 February 2014.
On his opposition in the election, he wins by defeating party chairman Jhala Nath Khanal by a vote of 98, and hence K.P Oli becomes the chairman of CPN-UML in July 2014.
After a succession of Sushil Koirala from the chair of the Prime Minister, he was elected for the chair of Prime Minister from a parliamentary vote on 11 October 2015, receiving 338 winning votes out of 597.
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Oli was supported by the UCPN-Maoists, Madhesi Rights Forum-Democratic, and Rashtriya Prajatantra Party Nepal, along with 13 other small parties to be nominated as prime minister from Parliamentary. He was sworn in the chair on 12 October.
But this co-operation could not sustain for long, after the withdrawal of support from the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre) accusing non-belief proposal over the character of K.P Oli on 13 July 2016 and take out a hand from the existing coalition government and subsequent accusation of a no-confidence motion from the party on 14 July 2016.
CPN-UML and hence acting Prime Minister KP Oli have to shrink to minority support which had pressured him to resign. However, CPN-UML decides to discuss obligation on the filing of no-confidence motion which was led to a three-day parliament meeting to the concerned parties.
During that process, two other major supportive parties, Madhesi Rights Forum-Democratic and Rashtriya Prajatantra Party, also removed their hand from the coalition, and hence there were no ways to KP Oli to withstand the chair of the Prime Minister.
On the third day, 24 July 2016, after answering the accusation given by the opposition parties, KP Oli finally announced his resignation in the Parliament as Prime Minister.
Oli was elected as Prime Minister of Nepal for the second time on 15 February 2018 after CPN-UML became the largest party in the House of Representatives with support from UCPN-Maoist.
3. Puspha Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) :-
Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who is better known by his party name, Prachanda. He is the former chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre).
He had led the Maoists during the war and, for decades, and lived in hiding in the underground. But later, he embraced multi-party democracy, in 2006, agreeing on the Comprehensive PeaceAccord.
Personal life of Nepal PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Pushpa Kamal Dahal was born on December 11, 1954 in Lewadi, Kaski Nepal.
He is a Nepali politician and rebel leader who had led the Maoist insurgency which was the main reason that ended Nepal’s monarchy system and reestablished the country as democratic republic country, and he served as its first prime minister (2008–09) as well he gets prime ministership again in 2016.
Pushpa Kamal Dahal was born in a poor family of the mountainous part of the Kaski district of central Nepal. His family’s main occupation was farming.
At the age of 11 he together with his family moved to Chitwan district, where a schoolteacher makes him influenced in communism. He had graduated with his bachelor’s degree from the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science in Rampur, Chitwan district in 1975.
The political life of Pushpa Kamal Dahal
In 1980, He was given responsibility for leading the All Nepal National Free Students’ Union (Revolutionary), with his pet name title Prachanda meaning “fierce” which was related to the Communist Party of Nepal (Masal).
He was selected as the central committee of the CPN (Masal) in 1983, and that gets soon split into the CPN (Fourth Convention) and CPN (Masal). In 1985, his group of CPN (Masal) divided into two groups again, into the CPN (Masal) and the CPN (Mashal).
Prachanda joined the CPN (Masal), and become a member of the politburo, and going on he gets to rise to the responsibility of the general secretary in 1989. In 1990 Many leftist parties also get merged to his CPN (Unity Centre), when Prachanda was a general secretary, but again in 1994 it also gets split into two vertical splits.
Prachanda renamed his branch to reflect its Maoist belief as to the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).
On February 13, 1996, with several attacks on police stations the CPN (Maoist) was launching their insurgent campaign to abolish the monarchy. During their 10 years of insurgency, he had remained underground, spending 8 of them in India.
However, the campaign led by Prachanda did not have consistent good fortune and several people of their side were also killed and kidnapped, but later after 10 years, it was ultimately successful in its goal and they ended Nepal’s monarchy which persists in Nepal for 237-year-old.
Since Prachanda had spent most of the part of his entire career being underground, while his head price was declared by the government of Sher Bahadur Deuba.
After his public appearance in a meeting with Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala in June 2006 along with other opposition leaders to negotiate for the creation of the country’s new democratic system of government.
From the agreement of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in November 2006, the CPN (Maoist) Prachanda was given the responsibility as the head as prime minister of the new government.
Under Prachanda’s leadership, in the constituent assembly election 2008, the CPN (Maoist) won 220 seats in elections, becoming the largest party in the 601-member Constituent Assembly.
In April, 0f the same year the new assembly voted and declared Nepal as a democratic republic, and thereby on August 15 there was the ending of the monarchy, and it elected Prachanda prime minister.
Prachanda had no previous experience with parliamentary politics, and he was faced with the task of rebuilding his country. He fired the army chief in May 2009, who was refusing to free about 20,000 Maoist rebels and enroll them in the country’s military, which was also one of the conditions of the 2006 peace agreement.
President Ram Baran Yadav overturned Prachanda’s order and there was the clash of power between two main personality, due to that pressure on May 4, 2009, Prachanda resigned from the chair of Prime ministership
Prachanda was again elected for the chair of prime minister by the Constituent Assembly in August 2016; preceded by the previous prime minister, Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, who had resigned ahead of his non-belief and no-confidence vote that he was already expected to lose.
Prachanda was the one and only official candidate after getting the support of Nepali Congress and he was elected for the post of Prime-minister after obtaining the back support of the Madhesi Front, which is known as the coalition of political parties representing for the right and interests of the Madhesi people of the Madhes region.
4. Sushil Koirala
Sushil Koirala was born on 2 August 1939 on the lap of father Bodh Prasad Koirala and mother Kuminidhi Koirala on Biratnagar, the second-largest city of Nepal. From 11 February 2014 to 10 October 2015 he was the Prime Minister of Nepal.
From 2010 to 2016 he was President of the Nepali Congress. In 1952, Koirala had joined the Nepali Congress and served to be in various responsibilities and hence he becomes eligible to be president in 2010.
Personal life of Nepal PM Sushil Koirala
Koirala remains unmarried and he is known for his simple life and high thinking. He had a political environment from his childhood. He was from the politically prominent Koirala family.
He was the cousin of former prime ministers Matrika Prasad Koirala, Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, and Girija Prasad Koirala. Sushil Koirala was a heavy smoker. Koirala was suffered from tongue cancer in 2006 and in June 2014 he gets diagnosed with lung cancer.
On 10 February 2016, at the age of 76, he died due to pneumonia in Kathmandu, Nepal. He was famous as ‘Sushil daa’ in politics. Koirala had his formal education of I.Com from the college of India although he had always mentioned his qualification as informal education.
Political Life
In 1954, Koirala had entered politics inspired by the social and democratic ideals of the Nepali Congress. He had actively involved in Bhadra Abagya Aandalon, (Civil Disobedience Movement) in 1958, which was launched by the Nepali Congress.
He had actively involved in the party’s objective to carry out the democratic elections in 1959. In the Royal coup made by King, Mahendra makes several members of the Nepali Congress to exile to India, and Sushil Koirala was included one of them.
He remained in India for 16 years in political exile with the royal takeover of 1960. He had spent three years jail in India for his involvement in 1973 plane hijacking. Koirala has worked as editor of Tarun, their official party publication, during his exile.
On the 12th general convention of the Nepali Congress on 22 September 2010, he was elected as party President.
In 2013, Constituent Assembly elections, Nepali Congress under Koirala’s leadership emerged as the largest party. He became Party President, in 2010, securing 105 out of 194 votes on the opposite of former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba’s 89 votes and it was the gateway for him to be nominated as prime minister 10 February 2014.
His government was criticized for its slow aid response on the terror of the 2015 April Nepal earthquake. But another historic agreement among four major parties and hence make a good achievement that year.
This government was successful in formulating the new constitution for the country. on 10 October 2015 Koirala resigned but in another election, on parliament, he was again as the nominee but he was defeated by Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, president of CPN-UML.
After that loss in the election, he remained almost inactive due to his health condition.
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